10 hurt as Jamaat-Shibir men clash with Rajshahi cops
At least 10 people including two police constables were injured as the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, clashed with law enforcers in Rajshahi city this morning.
The clash ensued when the Jamaat-Shibir men hurled a crude bomb from a rally targeting a vehicle of patrol police near Loknath School around 8:30am.
“Jamaat-Shibir men attacked my car when I was crossing the rally. In retaliation, the law enforcers opened fire to defend themselves, triggering a clash,” said SM Sobhan, officer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station.
The attackers hurled at least 10 crude bombs during the clash while police fired around 100 bullets and tear gas shells to disperse the unruly activists, he said.
The law enforcers picked up five Shibir men from the spot, the OC said.
Two police constables and three passersby are among the injured, police said.
On the other hand, Shibir claimed that five of its leaders and activists of Rajshahi city unit, including its president Anwarul Islam and organising secretary Jasim Uddin, were injured in the police action.
The city unit Shibir organised today’s rally to protest the Supreme Court verdict that sentenced Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee to imprisonment until death in a war crimes case.
On September 17, the apex court commuted Delawar’s death sentence handed down by International Crimes Tribunal-1 on February 28 last year on charges of killing, abduction, torture, rape and forced religious conversion.
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